Clause 4
Mental Health Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State (Health Services), Department of Health; Doncaster Central, Labour)
My hon. Friend has once again put her finger on it. Little is known about what impaired decision making or judgment would mean. We have the Mental Capacity Act, and I suggest that the clause would confuse impaired judgment and lack of capacity. We would be venturing down a track about which we know little and imposing confusion on the existing conditions.